Wikipedia talk:Don't watch articles that you care about

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Please do watchlist articles you care about

I recently found some strange text ("A bibliometric Mrs. Gaskell and me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two centuries Apart, by Nell Stevens was published in 2018.") in Elizabeth Gaskell, and traced it to an edit by a non-English speaker apparently armed with a spell-checker. (Their spellchecker apparently didn't understand "bibliomemoir", and nor did the editor.) The edits had been made in 2020 and no-one had noticed. I looked into the editor and found a pattern of garbled editing in a range of different articles, and very few of their mistakes had been corrected. (I reported them at ANI but was laughed out of court on the basis that they hadn't edited recently). Apparently no-one had watch-listed most of the articles this editor misguidedly edited.

If you care about an article, please keep an eye on it to defend it from casual vandalism or incompetence. PamD 08:01, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]